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The Controversial Discussions are one of the shaping events of British psychoanalysis and of the continuing history and dynamics of the British Society. On the sixtieth anniversary of the series of extraordinary meetings and the position papers presented at them, the Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL presents the opportunity to think about both the situation that led to the Controversial Discussions and the ongoing effects not only of the solution arrived at (the so called 'gentlemen's agreement') but of the personal and institutional traumas suffered and the extent to which they have been superceded.
Speakers
Dr Riccardo Steiner (Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, UK and BPAS)
'Controversies: Terminable or Interminable'
Isabel Hernandez-Halton (Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, UK and BPAS)
'60 Years On: Some Clinical Consequences of the Controversial Discussions'
Barbie Antonis (NHS Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, UK and BPAS)
'Contributions of Independent Women Psychoanalysts to Clinical Technique: The Place of Listening to Experience'
Ken Robinson (Psychoanalyst in Private Practice, UK and BPAS)
'Remembering, Repeating and Working Through'